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"Humanity dreams of flight, but the dream is cursed. Aircraft are destined to become tools for slaughter and destruction."

I'm not a Miyazai expert. I still haven't seen several of his early films, and I've been pretty mixed on most of his recent stuff. But I thought this was an absolute masterpiece about how the perfection we seek to achieve in life is only really attainable in dreams -- or, on rare occasions, in art.

Like Kubrick, Welles, Ford, Malick, and many other capital-G Great directors, you'd be hard pressed to come to an agreement on Miyazaki's finest film. They're all so aching with feeling - a universal past laced with eventual adulthood and the unbearable beauty of fantasy - but each singular in voice and tone. Everyone has a favorite, and in the case of The Wind Rises, the highest compliment that I could give it is that, one day, it could be MY Miyazaki; a film swept up by elemental pleasures and a haunting depiction of the passage of time that borders on the ethereal. It dances with the wind, building an evocative and gentle romance, which is almost Sirkian, around a complex study of the dreams we have and where they lead. Its lyrical pleasures climb towards a final scene, a piece engrained in the panethon of whispered love, to which we should bow to.

If this is in fact Miyazaki's last film, he certainly went out on a high note. While I don't find The Wind Rises to be one of his best films, it is still very good. If you've never experienced on of his films before, I truly feel sorry for you. Hayao Miyazaki is the best animated director of all time. An absolute mastermind!

Legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki needn’t have formally announced his retirement for it to be abundantly clear that his latest feature would also be his last. While the cinema’s most revered animator confirmed on September 6th that he intends to put down his pencil once and for all, “The Wind Rises” is such a magnificently lucid summation of Miyazaki’s fierce humanism and singular genius that the film itself serves as a formal farewell.

The only Miyazaki film since his debut (1979’s brilliant Lupin III adventure, “The Castle of Cagliostro”) not to prominently feature magic, “The Wind Rises” is the wistful work of a man whose consideration of the past belies…

From the mastermind behind anime classics like My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke & Spirited Away, The Wind Rises is possibly the final feature film in the glorious film career of the greatest animator of all time whose contribution to this medium has been so profound, influential & immense that the world of cinema, art & culture will forever be indebted to his works.

Set in pre-World War II Japan, The Wind Rises is a fictional biography of Jiro Horikoshi; the chief engineer of many fighter planes that were used by the Japanese militia during the war. The plot covers his rise from an ambitious dreamer to one of the most innovative designers of airplanes, and through his life story also covers many events…

"Animation is for kids" Animation is my favorite genre, which truthfully isn't a genre as it's just a medium to use other genres but that's an entirely separate argument that involves defining what genres actually exist which is something I don't really care for, unfortunately in the public eye animation is seen as just a kids movie. Off the bat it's used as a huge dismissal of the artistic merit of children's films as many tend to say "This was a great kids movie" instead of it being what it is; a great film. Secondly there is this idea that animation is light and fluffy fun that kids love, but when used correctly it is a form that enhances a…

The Wind Rises starts off amazingly, then get incredibly boring, then ends up being quite interesting by the end.

Overall now that it is over, I feel quite good about it. But with that in mind, I was unbelievably frustrated with this film during the middle section. It was just really boring I didn't know where I was going.

The movie kind of feels like a classic works of literature. And I mean that in both a good and a bad way.

Let me put it like this, this is a movie your grandmother would probably love. Or maybe more so your grandfather.

I really liked the protagonist nonetheless. The voice acting work was admittedly amazing. I don't remember being…

Just like Miyazaki's previous works, The Wind Rises is a peaceful and creative film that truly shows the beauty of life with great artistic illustrations and visuals. While the film is not as magical or imaginative, The Wind Rises feels very personal and it felt like Miyazaki wanted to show this story to the audience for a long time.

Over the last year or so I've been delighted to finally catch up on a bunch of Studio Ghibli stuff (even though I still have plenty more left) and general other bits of acclaimed anime.

I'm now at the stage where each time I watch a Ghibli film I grow more and more worried that I'm about to finally run into a film by them that I don't really like. It's quite a statement that The Wind Rises is the closest I've got - and I'd still rate it as among the better animated films I've ever seen. That's a ridiculous standard, isn't it?